astonished - Story 10026 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared, completely and utterly thrown. The picture was of a small, clockwork robot with a perpetually confused expression. The resemblance to "Tick-Tock," the robot who used to share his secrets, was impossible.

His breath hitched. "Where did you get this idea?" he managed, his voice raspy.

His niece, Emily, just shrugged and looked down at the drawing. “He’s my friend. He fixes things, like the toy car.” He felt the ground tilting under his feet. He had to sit down. He had to think.

Emotion: astonished

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -0.84 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.24

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion astonished. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 astonished stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the astonished emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the astonished vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`que`	0.448
`de`	0.350
`la`	0.323
`l`	0.307
`incred`	0.266

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.289
`cheerfully`	-0.231
`enjoyed`	-0.224
`开心`	-0.221
`ี่ยว`	-0.219